At 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, a blast erupted from in front of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, shaking the heart of the city’s downtown and causing mass chaos in and around the structure. The building itself sustained a substantial amount of damage in the blast, and 300 other buildings and dozens of cars were severely damaged from the explosion as well. When the dust settled, 168 people (including nineteen children who had been in the daycare program in the building) had been killed in the blast, and hundreds more had been injured.